Never hit your granny with a shovel, It leaves a bad impression on her mind, In some other way impart, All the love that's in your heart, And remember that she may retort in kind.

"Never Hit Granny," DigTrad filename[ HITGRANN

ALSO: Granny's in the cellar, I'm surprised you canna smell her Baking biscuits on her damned old dirty stove In her eye there is some matter, It keeps dripping in the batter And she whistles while the [sniff] runs doon her nose.

Give me that...ho-o-ome cooking...

As learned from Roy Williamson (1936-1990) one ceilidh night at Hillend in 1968 Also in A Prairie Home Companion Folksong Book by Marcia & Jon Pankake, 1988

Cosher Bailey had a grandma, Who could play the grand pianna, And she also played the fiddle, Down the sides and up the middle. Did you ever see, Did you ever see, Did you ever see Such a funny thing before?

--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

||: When a Scotsman moves to England, it raises the average of intelligence in both countries. :||

Who invented Grandmother's Day? What about grandfathers? Uncles? Great uncles? Aunts? Great aunts? Cousins? Second cousins? . . . And how long has there been a Grandmother's Day - I've been a grandmother for nearly nineteen years and it's the first I've heard of it.

In many folk societies Grandmother has a special relationship to grandchildren, especially to grandson. Unique. Sometimes play-sexual, sometimes motherly, sometimes financial (see the complex relationships created in some Australian Aborigine traditions).

But, as we've been reminded, Grannie, nobody should shove you off a bus. You might take some comfort in that.

Am going 2 be 18 in may, my grandmother raised me from birth till i was 12 and then i moved to live wit my grandfather and i have been thinking of a way 2 say thank u and i figured if i had 2 create a day in favour of somebody, it would be grandmother's day...i love my grandmother...now dat i knw there is grandmother's day i wont 4get it next year.